Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 20, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 1 August 1894 — Page 3

“NARROW ESCAPES.” Sr. Talmage Talk* on Close Can* for Salvation. Tk* Cam of Thin World Coupled with Man'* Erll Propemltira Render Salvation, In Some Cane*, a Pretty Tight Squeeze. The following sermon was selected by Rev.- T. DeWitt Talmage as the reading portion for his great congregation this week. The subject is “Narrow Escapes,” being based on the text: I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.— Job xix., 20. Job had it hard. What with boils, and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wife, he wished he was dead; and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry, His teeth wasted away until 'nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cried out: "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. ISt. Jerome and Mchultons and Drs. Good and I’oole, and Karnes, have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my' interpretation and say: “What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?” He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old. are found today with gold-filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints, Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and. putting his hand against the -intlampd face, he says: “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” Avery narrow escape, you sav, for Job's body and soul; but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow ysjjape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel: but. as Job finally escaped. so have they. Thank God! Thank God!

I’aul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are “saved as by tire.” A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boatsare shoved off. The flames advance: you can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the life boats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you—you drop into it —you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they ure partially consumed, but after all get off—“saved as if by fire.” Hut I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out: and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escapes for their souls, and are saved as “with the skin of their teeth.tL-" It is ns easy for some people to look tq the cross ns for yon to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go oyer to the store and say, "Grandon joined the church yesterday.” Your business comrades say, “That is just what might have been expected; lie always was of that turn of mind.” In youth, this person whom 1 describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven, lie could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hnnd nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the, whole discussion about the cternnl decrees. lie never upset things, nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is unother one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. lie kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to sec if lie could balance himself. There was no horse he dared not ride—no tree he Could r.ot climb. His boyhood was a long scries of predicaments; his manhood was reckless; his mid life very wayward. Kilt now he is converted, and you go over to'the store and say, “Arkwright joined the church yesterday.” Your friends say, “It is not possible! You must lie joking!” You say, “No; I tell you the truth. He joined the church.” Then they reply, “There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright liua become a Christian!” In other words, we all admit that it is more difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. 1 may Is: addressing some who tnvc cut loose from churches, and Kibles, and Sundays, and who have at present no intention of becoming Cbristiuns themselves, but just to see what is going on; and yet you may find yourself escaping, before you hear the end. as “with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long llranch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of net. Hut we expect no such excursion today. The water is full of fish; the wind in in the right direction; the Gospel net is strong. O, thou, who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us to-day how to cast the net on the right side of the ship! Some of you, in coming to God, will have to run against skepticnl notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I can not say aucb things. Hy what process of temptation, or trial, or betrayal you have come to your present state,. I know not. There are two gates to your nature; the gate of the head, and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily

on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword-stroke for sword-stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if I come and knock at the door of your house you open it, and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you to-day with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; if with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come and knock at the door of your heart, you open it and say: “Come in. my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and Heaven.”

Listen to two or three.questions: Are you as happy as you used to be when you believed in the truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? Yon had a relative who professed to be a Christian, and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you not like to live the'same quiet life, and die the peaceful death? I received a letter, sent me by one who has reiected the Christian religion. Itsays: “lam old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life arc evanescent, and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old age to believe in something relative to the future, and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. lam free to confess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of nnrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality, and look upon the deaf titled as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?” Ah. skepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let'me shy that this Kible is either true or false. If it is false, we are as well off as you; if it is true, then which of us is safer? Do you not feel that the Kible. take it all in all., is about the best liook that the world has ever seen? Doyouknow any book that has as much in It? Do you not think ' upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? I come to you with lioth hands extended toward yon. In one hand I have the Kible. and in the other I have nothing. This Kible in one hand I will surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a book that is better.

To-day I invite you back into the good 'old-fashioned religion of your fathers—to the God whom they worshiped. to the Kible they read, to the promises on which they leaned, to the cross on which they hung their eternal expectations. You have , not been happy a day since you swung off: you will not lie happy a minute until you swing tsick. Again: There may lie some of you who, in the attempt after a Christian life, wijll have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against; and perhaps while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that you must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once so exasperated that he said to a mean customer: “I can not swear at you myself, for I am a member of the church; but, if you will go 'down stairs my partner in business will swear at you.” All your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now, there is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad at sin. You need. to bridle and saddle these hot-breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to, lie mad at. There is no harm in getting red hot if you only bring to the forge that which necds liammering. A man who has no power of righteous indignation is an imbecile. Hut be sure it is a righteous indignation, and not a petulancy that blurs, and unravels, and depletes the soul. There is a lnrge class of persons in mid-life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on lieing a “little fast, - ’ “high livers,” “free and easy,” “hail fellows well met.” They are now paying in compound interest for troubles they collected twenty years ago. Some of you arc trying to escape, and you will—yet very narrowly, “as with the skin of your teeth,” God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire titan you are. They line the beach of llearen—dhe multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you thisday turn your back on the wrong, and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile, and then turn you off. If you will ask for their pardon, they will give it. and-sny they will try you again; but, falling away again under the power of temptation, they cast you off forever. llut God forgives, seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea; though this be the ten thousandth time He is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the influence favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction. If, under such circumstances, he breaks away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend, and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor—escaped at last as with the skin of his teeth. The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man on the lookout saw something

that he pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was afterward found to be waving a handkerchief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was a capsized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain tock his pen knife and dug away through the planks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank back faint and sick. After long and tedious work, the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief wasrhoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? How narrowly they escaped—escaped only “with the skin of their teeth.” <=■

In the last days it will be found that Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, byt Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall street. Water street, l’earl street, Kroad street, Mate street. Third street, Lombard street and the bourse. On earth they were eallqd brokers or stock-jobbers, orretailers. or importers; but in Heaven, Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet; no inquisition demanded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a spike at their heart; but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. I find in the community a large class of men who have lieen so cheated, so lied a bout, so outrageously wronged, that they have lost faith in everlTthing. In a world where everything seems so topsy-turvy they do not see how there can lie any God. They are confounded and frenzied, and misanthropic Elaborate argument to prove to them the truth of Christianity, or the truth of anything else, touches them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse; but I put my hand on your shoulder, and invite you into the peace of the Gospel. Here is a roek on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic. pitching its surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God. God stuck to the world: but the earth seceded from His government, and hence all these outrages and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him; but the more He has coaxed, the more violent have men been in their resistance, and they have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped . into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, and who have thought that God has forgotten you. Try Him and see if He will not help. Try Him and see if He will not pardon. Try Him and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowerings of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will .slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool moittA tain torrent the hunter may lie coming, through the thicket. Without cracky ling a stick under his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor-tiling rears in its death ngany and falls backwards, its antlers crashing on the rocks; but the panting heart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded, and shall never die. This world is a poor portion for your soul, oh business man! An eastern king had graven upon liis tomb two fingers, represented as sounding upon each other with a snap, and under them the motto: “All is not worth that.” Apicius Coelius hanged himself because liis steward informed him that he had only eighty thousand pounds sterling left. All of this world's riches make but a small inheritance for a soul. Roliespierre attempted to win the applause of the world; but when he was dying a woman came rushing through the crowd, saying to him: “Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France!” Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its Anathema Maranatha.

Oh. find your peace in God. Make one strong puli for Heaven. No halfway work will do it. There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when everything must be saerifleed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to liis lip and shouts: “Cut away tile mast!" Some of you have been tossed and driven, and you have in your effort to keep the world, well nigh lost your soul. Until yon have decided this matter, let everything go. Overboard with all those other anxieties and burdens! Yon will have to drop the sails of your pride and cut away the mast! With one earnest cry for help, put yeur cause into the hand of Him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook tlie ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. I shall conclude, feeling that some of you, who have considered yonr case hopeless, will take heart again, and that with a blood-red earnestness, such as you have never experienced before, you will start for the good land of the Gospel—at last to look hack', saying: "What a great risk I ran! Almost lost, bnt saved! Just got through, and no more!'Escaped by the skin oi my teeth.” Ir you are a laborer, see that you are wpithy of your higher.—Rural New Yorker.

“ko Pnm fur Ike Wlekud.” Mother In the hammock lay.' " - Resting on a summer day. But a swarm of flics was (her*; One would nestle In her hair. Then another on her noee, Try to settle for repose. Oft she brushed them all away. But, alaa: they would not stay. Losing patience, mother said. Vainly covering her head: "Will these torments ever case! For the wicked there's no peace” Mother's darling, aged live, Sweeteat little sprite alive. Beard these words with great surprise, Opening wide her large blue eyes. . This Is what the darling said. Gently patting mother's head: "Naughty flies! but they dotf't come And around you buzz and hum ■Tause you're wicked; Oh, pooh! pooh! Wish th%t I was good as you. "Don't you know what makes 'em come Round your face to buzz and hum? “It's because they know you're sweet; They Just think they'll have a treat.” —Egbert L. Bangs, in Our Little Ones. One Fare Excursions Booth ViaC.A E.I.R.R. Round trip tickets will be sold from all stations on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R R. on July ,sth, August 7th, Sept. 4th, Oct. 2d, Nov. 6th and Dec. 4th, 18U4, at one fare, to points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Tickets good to return for twenty days from date of sale. Stopover allowed on going or returning Journey. For further particulars apply to any C. & E. I. R. R. agent or Ciias. w. Humphrey, northern passenger agent, 170 E. Third street, St. # Paul, Chicago city ticket office 230 Clark Street, or to Charles L. Stone, G. P. & T. A.. Chicago, 111.

Life in Pizfv Cref.k —Barber—“Somehow my razor doesn't seem to cut well this morning.” Col. Whipsaw (of the Rattlesnake Ranch] —“Use my Bowie, podner; You’ll find that all O. K. I tried the edge on Bill Chaparejo last night when he said I was er liar [’’—Texas Siftings. “Useful Information” Is the title of a pamphlet Just received from the Prickly Ash Bitters Cos., of St. Louis, Mo. An examination will show it to be ail its name implies. It is full of “Useful Information.” The chapters on “What to Do in Case of Accidents.” “Antidotes for Poisons,” “Health Hints,” etc., are most valuable and are written in a f>lain English, common-sens©manner, avoidng medical terms as much as possible. It also contains “Useful Information foi Fanners, Housewives,” etc. It is a book that should be in every house in the land. Write the firm above named for a copy, and when you get it read, it attentively and keep it where it can easily be found in time of need. “I’ve got a cold ot something in my ’ead,” was what the simple little chappie said. The summer girl, with roguishness demure, replied : “Oh lit must be a cold, I’m sure.” —Boston Journal. %nbh Care, But do it consistently, wisely, and not with alcoholic stimulants, but by the reinforcement of energy, the renewal of appetite and the ability to digest, which Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, foremost among tonics, produces. Malaria, rheumatism, kidney complaints, constipation and nervousness arc conquered by this victor over many ailments. Cuttan Thrust—“ That young Dumleigh has got more money than sense.” Dulham Bluntly—“l didn't know he was rich.” Cuttan Thrust-“He isn’t.”—Puck. The Ladles. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use the California liquid laxative Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look* for the name of the California Fig .Syrup Cos., printed near the bottom of the package. “Db fust highway robber mentioned in de Bible,” said Uncle ’Rastus, “mus’ a’ be’n Moses. He held up a brazen Barpent in de wilde'ness.”—Chicago Tribune. “My darling,” whispered the Chicago man. “My life,” she murmured. “You are the only wife I ever loved.”—Detroit Tribune.” “TnERE goes Black; he owes me an apoli egy, too.” “Well, you don’t deserve any for you ought to know better than to loan him anything.” Evert bride and groom should have their pictures taken together. It affords such sport for their grandchildren. TnERE are two many people in the world who mistake laziness for dignity.—Cleveland Plaindealer.

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“I ou ess Jimmie Jones was mistaken about his brother beinfr a college graduate.” Mamma—“Why. what makes you think so!” “Well, papa sals they always know, everything, and he couldn’t even tell what our baby was cryin’ about.”—lnter Ocean. Were Yon Ever South In Sommer f It is no hotter in Tennessee. Alabama, or Georgia than here, and it is positively delightful on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and West Florida. If you are looking for a location in the South go down now and see for yourself. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad and connections will sell tickets to all points South for trains of August 7th at one faro round trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if ne cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky. Upstreete—“Do you take any stock in the saying that money talks ?” Frontpew—“l’ve known it to—e‘r-have something to do with calls to preach.”—Buffalo Courier. Low Rates to fit. Paul. On account of the ‘Annual Convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, the North-Western Line will sell excursion tickets to St. Paul, Minn., and return at half rates—one fare for the round trip; tickets on sale July 80 and 31, good for return passage until August 6, 18V4, Inclusive. For tickets and full information Fsslway > AgeDtß Chicao & North-Western “Is Hick’s wife a nice housekeeper!” Mr. Hacks—“ Well, I should say so. Why, half the time Hicks can’t find anything tfiat belongs to him.’’—Demorest’s Magazine. It Is not strange that stove manufacturer* should be fired by ardor for the grate cause. Clerk—“ Are you going to discharge me, then!” Druggist—“ Yes; I think we can dispense without you.”—Harvard Lampoon. If you are a laborer, see that vou are worthy of your higher.—Rural New* Yorker. The most expensive shoes cost two dollars a pair.—Puck. Wherever there is love there will be trust.

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